Reconstruction AP US History

Key Questions How will the South rejoin the Union? Who will direct the re-unification? What will happen to the 4 million former slaves?

Presidential Reconstruction Lincoln: Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863) 10% Plan Theory on Secession Second Inaugural Address Thirteenth Amendment Assassination Andrew Johnson Background 10% Plan

13th Amendment (1865) Status of Freedmen Freedmen’s Bureau Sharecropping - 3 Black Codes Freedmen’s Bureau Reconstruction is Over? Return Confederates to Congress More Power? Real Change?

Radical/Republican Reconstruction Disappointment in Presidential Reconstruction Position of African Americans in South Lack of remorse or change in South Radical Agenda Punish and reform the South Protect the rights of the Freedmen

Radical Reconstruction Civil Rights Act of 1866 & Override Freedmen’s Bureau Renewal & Override Fourteenth Amendment Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 - 2 Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Fifteenth Amendment Civil Rights Act of 1875 Declared unconstitutional in 1883

The End of Reconstruction Emergence of KKK - 2 Lynching - 2 Election of 1876 and Compromise of 1877 Hayes (R) and Tilden (D)

The New South Social: Economic: Political: “Redemption” Sharecropping Literacy Test Poll Tax Grandfather Clause Solid South Social: Jim Crow – 3 Civil Rights Cases Plessy v. Ferguson -2

Argumentation Was Reconstruction effective? Present a thesis with 3 pieces of specific information to back it up. Be sure to include analysis that proves point

Practice Synthesis The expansion of federal authority during Radical Reconstruction was like … The limitations placed on African Americans after Reconstruction was like….

Conclusion of Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” -March 5, 1865

Freedmen’s Bureau

Andrew Johnson

Midterms of 1866 House: 173 Republicans 47 Democrats Senate: 57 Republicans 9 Democrats Veto Proof Majority

Charles Sumner Thaddeus Stevens

14th Amendment - 1868 All people born in the US are citizens States cannot deny life, liberty and happiness without due process All people are entitled to “equal protection” under the law Takes away rights for former Confederates and repudiates the Confederate debt.

Military Reconstruction

Military Reconstruction Composition Carpetbaggers Scalawags Freedmen Republican Domination Legislative Record Schools, Roads, Hospitals Corruption Status of Freedmen

Carpetbaggers

Freedmen

Ulysses S. Grant

Tammany Hall

Boss Tweed

KKK

KKK

KKK

Lynching

Lynching

Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel Tilden

Compromise of 1877

Sharecropping

Sharecropping

Sharecropping

Poll Tax

Jim Crow

Jim Crow

Jim Crow

Homer Plessy

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Background: Legal Questions: Homer Plessy, a black man, was denied entry to a public train car for in New Orleans, Louisiana Legal Questions: Do Louisiana’s segregation laws violate the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment? Legal Decision (7-1): No Impact: As long as there are “equal” facilities for each group, it does not violate the 14th Amendment.

Civil Rights Cases (1883) Background: Legal Questions: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 prohibited discrimination by private businesses. Several African Americans were denied equal access in various locations across the country. Legal Questions: Can private businesses discriminate against African Americans? Legal Decision (7-1): Yes Impact: Legalizes segregation by private companies. Limits rights of African Americans across the country.